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head·strong

[hed-strawng, -strong]
adjective
1.
determined to have one's own way; willful; stubborn; obstinate: a headstrong young man.
2.
proceeding from or exhibiting willfulness: a headstrong course.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English heedstronge. See head, strong

head·strong·ly, adverb
head·strong·ness, noun

headlong, headstrong.


1. See willful.


1. tractable, docile.

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Headstrong is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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  • And they attract obsessive, difficult, headstrong people fixated on changing the world.
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headstrong (ˈhɛdˌstrɒŋ)
 
adj
1.  self-willed; obstinate
2.  (of an action) heedless; rash
 
'headstrongly
 
adv
 
'headstrongness
 
n

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